North Korea Sets More Conditions for Talks

By

Alastair Gale

Updated April 19, 2013 12:18 a.m. ET

SEOUL—North Korea said any dialogue with Washington or Seoul could take place only after the removal of sanctions imposed on it for its nuclear-weapons program and the end of military drills in the South.

"If the U.S. and the south [sic] Korean puppets…genuinely want dialogue and negotiation, they should take these steps," the North's highest decision-making body, the National Defense Commission, said in a statement.